Bart Wright: NFL Combine is an up-close look for hardcore followers only

12:43 AM,
Feb. 25, 2013

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Bart Wright

We all have them, even if we aren't eager to discuss our guilty pleasures.

Mine came honestly enough, as an offshoot of covering the National Football League and preparing to write about the college draft each spring. Each year, I'm unavoidably drawn to watching the NFL Scouting Combine.

It gets ridiculed, almost as much as those of us who watch it because people say drills that show how high you can jump or how well you can negotiate a three-cone drill aren't components of a football game. ...